Friday, 14 March 2025
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Dene Gavin, Partner, Duncan Cotterill
Is There Such a Thing as a Fool Proof Succession Plan? Tips and Tricks for Farm Succession Given Recent Changes
- Navigate the recent changes to the structures used for family farming succession and how these may impact on current (and future) succession discussions.
- The importance of making sure all of the planning documents are consistent with each other – Wills, Memorandum of Wishes and other core documentation in the succession plan – and tips and tricks on the best documentation to use.
Presented by Sue Garmonsway, Consultant, Gallie Miles Lawyers
Learning Objectives:
- Understand recent changes affecting structures used in farm succession planning
- Learn best practices for aligning key planning documents, including Wills and Memoranda of Wishes, to create effective succession plans
Presenters
Dene Gavin, Partner, Duncan CotterillDene specialises in commercial and property law with a particular focus on rural law. regularly advises clients in relation to business purchases, shareholders’ agreements, obtaining leasing matters, banking and finance, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, restructuring, collaborative agreements and joint ventures. He has experience in a broad range of commercial law matters and has advised clients from a range of industries including construction, tourism, rural, forestry, aquaculture and property.
Sue Garmonsway, Consultant, Gallie Miles Lawyers
Sue has extensive experience and knowledge in the area of commercial and rural law and business succession. Sue's practical and results-focused work has helped countless clients achieve their business and farming goals.
